'She was as attractive as something that society has deemed attractive.'
NPR bloggers read Twilight. I giggle.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/03/the_writing_style_of_twilight.html?ft=1&f=1032
(Link via Bookshelves of Doom.)
or this one:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/03/more_twilight_is_bella_a_sympa.html
Which features this comment: "It's interesting that she never asks him things like, 'What was the Great Depression like?'"
I always wish that vampires weren't so much with the blood and the death and all (I'm fairly squeamish, and also not particularly interested in coven politics or what have you*), because I love the idea of people outside of time (you may continue to be unimpressed by this totally obvious comment), and if I *did* write a vampire story, you know the whole thing would be all about the main character going, "Sooo... what was [historical event X] like?" And the vampire would be all, *colossal broody eyeroll*
I'm just saying; it seems like a wasted opportunity.
In totally unrelated news, except that this is also something I just did on the internet: I'm sure I've said this before in comments on someone else's post or something, but it really doesn't bear thinking about, how much my story-writing kinks have been shaped by, of all things, the video to "Take on Me."
*In and of themselves, I hasten to add. It's not a button for me, a theme I'll actively seek out. A good writer could do anything to that basic idea and get me to read it. Provided I could get over my squeamishness.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/03/the_writing_style_of_twilight.html?ft=1&f=1032
(Link via Bookshelves of Doom.)
or this one:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2010/03/more_twilight_is_bella_a_sympa.html
Which features this comment: "It's interesting that she never asks him things like, 'What was the Great Depression like?'"
I always wish that vampires weren't so much with the blood and the death and all (I'm fairly squeamish, and also not particularly interested in coven politics or what have you*), because I love the idea of people outside of time (you may continue to be unimpressed by this totally obvious comment), and if I *did* write a vampire story, you know the whole thing would be all about the main character going, "Sooo... what was [historical event X] like?" And the vampire would be all, *colossal broody eyeroll*
I'm just saying; it seems like a wasted opportunity.
In totally unrelated news, except that this is also something I just did on the internet: I'm sure I've said this before in comments on someone else's post or something, but it really doesn't bear thinking about, how much my story-writing kinks have been shaped by, of all things, the video to "Take on Me."
*In and of themselves, I hasten to add. It's not a button for me, a theme I'll actively seek out. A good writer could do anything to that basic idea and get me to read it. Provided I could get over my squeamishness.